Thursday, 28 February 2008

This can be made in a day so could be that extra Christmas or Birthday present that you might need.

This one has been made in 2 colours of Marble and 2 colours of Life,

but any 2 colours of chunky yarn could be used

Chunky yarn and

6mm hook

US Terms and UK Terms in brackets

James C Brett Marble Chunky

Stylecraft Life two strands worked as one

James C Brett Marble chunky in cols: MC 32 granny shell, MC 3 for the single dc stripe or MC 8 if you want a bigger contrast.

They are very similar but one is slightly darker than the otherI have used this yarn a lot and it comes in a fabulous range of colours and also in DK as well,if you prefer a slightly lighter weight scarf/mini shawl use the DK Marble and Life single strand

Scarf/mini Shawl in 2 shades of MarbleRuffle and the centre of the flower in Life

ROUNDS: 1,2, 4,5, 7,8, 10,11, 13,14, 16,17, 19,20, in Col.1 MC32

ROUNDS: 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, in Col 2 MC3 or MC8

PATTERNUsing ch3 as the first dc at the beginning of all rounds.

Col 1, Ch5 sl st, into a circle

ROUND 1: 4dc [4tr], ch3, 4dc [4tr] into the circle.

ROUND 2: turn, ch3, 3dc [3tr], in the first stitch, 3dc [3tr], ch3, 3dc [3tr], in the point space, 4dc [4tr], in last st, Cut off and weave in ends.

ROUND3: turn col2. 2dc [2tr], in the first st, dc [tr], in the next 6sts,

dc [tr], ch3, dc [tr], in the point space, dc [tr], in the next 6sts, 2dc [2tr],

Monday, 25 February 2008

Hadn't realised l hadn't posted a blog over wkend...how time flies when you're having fun hey!!

Visit to Shrewsbury and the QVC Shop.....ooops promise l was only looking but they had a lot of lettering and peel off quotes and some lovely papers and a carry for 12x12 and.........oh dear l'm going to be poor if l keep buying stash when l'm 'ONLY LOOKING'!

Sunday spent making hand cut flowers and doing a new Art journal...Phil bought me 3 on Saturday lovely handmade recycled thick textured paper...doing an alphabet of scrapping....just enough pages to do the whole alphabet....last couple of pages will double up but love doing this album.....trying out stuff in it before using it in LO's

Finishing LO's that l started in the 1st couple of weeks of scrapping wording mainly

Thursday, 21 February 2008

LO papers are copies of embroidery l have done and a cushion (was just the right colour!)punched flowers and the photo mounted on an envelope for some journalling sleepy title was hand cut from the embroidery paper

There are a few variations in blog land, several on which let the last stitch go from the hook, then pick up the begining of the 'petal' and then re pick up the dropped stitch again before doing the chain spacing....why? Not necessary

ch3, 5tr [5dtr], into the next st, turn to the back of the motif, sl st into the ch3 space, pull the yarn through and do 3ch sts as the space.

Repeat until you have a popcorn in each st, then sl st into the top of the first popcorn

Round 3: start in any ch3 sp, 3dc [3tr], 2ch, 3dc [3tr], (corner), 2sc [2dc], in the next sp, ch1, 2sc [2dc], in the next sp, 3dc [3tr], 2ch, 3dc [3tr], in the next sp, repeat until you have a square, sl st to complete the round.

Round 4; 1dc [1tr], ch2, 1dc [1tr], in each corner sp and 1dc [1tr], in each side stitch. Each side should have 13dc [13tr] and 2ch at each corner.